You can use for most of the ceiling fans a remote control or a wall mount control.

For the installation of the remote control you only need 3-wires to control fan and light separately.

If you like to control fan and light seperately with a wall control you need a 5-wiring.

To change the direction of your fan you normally have a switch at the motor housing.

Exceptions : Alchemy ( Hunter ), Air Shadow ( Fanimation ), Peninsula (Vam), Factory (Vam) Palk (Vam) and all other DC-models like Slice, Leonardo, Pipistrello, Raffaello, Giant- Only these models have a a remote control which controls also the reverse function of the fan.